Gateway theory is the hypothesis that exposure to entry level drugs such as tobacco‚ alcohol and marijuana reliably predicts a deeper and more severe drug involvement for the user in the future (O’Brien Lecture). For the sake of this discussion‚ I will refer to marijuana as the gateway drug. Gateway theory is comprised of three propositions: Sequencing‚ Association‚ and Causation. Sequencing refers to the idea that there is a relationship between two drugs‚ where the use of one is regularly initiated
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Elizabeth Morgan March 10‚ 2014 Chemical Dependencies midterm paper Is Addiction a Symptom Or a Primary Disease? The problem with the question of whether addiction is a disease or not is that it requires us to try to fit a loosely defined term into a vaguely defined category. Critics of the addictive disease model‚ also called the medical model‚ say that labeling drug addiction as a disease
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Ethnocentrism: The Cultural Differences between Western and Middle Eastern Cultures Through its ethnocentric tales and family based beliefs‚ Elizabeth Warnock Fernea’s Guests of the Sheik suggests that to find the true representation of Islamic culture‚ one must leave ethnocentrism behind. Not only will we discuss ethnocentrism and the cultural differences between Western and Middle Eastern societies‚ we will also take a look at the women of El Nahra and family within the differing
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Geodesy University of Technology‚ Jamaica Lecture 2 Coordinate Systems and Datums In Jamaica University of Technology‚ Jamaica Overview • • • • • • • • • • Conventional Terminology Geodetic Coordinate Systems The Concept of Datums Defining a Geodetic Datum The Jamaican Datum GPS Datum Coordinate Transformation Projection to National Grid Summary Exercise University of Technology‚ Jamaica Lesson Objectives • By the end of this lesson‚ students should be able to: – Define a
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Chechen Refugee Camps and Education 620/ PSYCH April 14‚ 2014 Dr. Neysa Hatcher Chechen Refugee Camps and Education The creation of schools is one of the leading ways to produce hope and stability in refugee camps. Many would love to go to school because‚ currently they have no other option‚ but to teach themselves. Refugees can recall having great memories of their past school experiences‚ which they use as motivation to continue to learn. On account of my involvement with a refugee relief
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intervention to prevent “ordinary” oppression usually results in more instability and violence since it denies self-determination for the country’s citizens. The second is moral: Luban’s conception of “cosmopolitan” human rights is dangerously ethnocentric towards the West and can result in cultural imperialism. The third is theoretical‚ meaning that while interventions are ideally carried out by perfect national leaders‚ government officials will always be coopted or influenced by neoliberalism
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embraced the European Parliament vote as an accomplishment. There is still a debate if e-cigarettes actually for health benefits as well as if the vapor electronic cigarettes have negative effects like second hand smoke from a real cigarette. An ethnocentric view that stems from this article is that people in European countries are very big smokers. It widely thought that many Europeans smoke and it is very common to see people in Europe smoking‚ even inside public places like stores and restaurants
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1. Discuss whether the Scientific Revolution and the Reformation were “revolutionary”. What does it mean to be revolutionary? To be revolutionary is to be‚ as defined by dictionary.com as “markedly new or introducing radical change”. It is my educated opinion to believe that the scientific revolution and the reformation were both revolutionary without a doubt. A revolution involves change‚ mass amounts of change which affects nearly everything. It’s not a change of wardrobe‚ or a new car‚ it is
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submissive. They also believed that they were carrying out God’s will by converting slaves‚ who were largely considered to be devil worshipers. Europeans at the time largely held Christian views employed by the Catholic Church; and because of their ethnocentric approach they lacked an understanding of the African culture. This is still an issue that has affected African cultures in the Caribbean to this day. The Catholic Church’s belief in God and the divinity of Jesus Christ strongly deterred other religions
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Aristotle vs. Copernicus Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist‚ who shared with Plato the distinction of being the most famous of ancient philosophers. Aristotle was born at Stagira‚ in Macedonia‚ the son of a physician to the royal court. At the age of 17‚ he went to Athens to study at Plato’s Academy. He remained there for about 20 years‚ as a student and then as a teacher. When Plato died in 347 bc ‚ Aristotle moved to Assos‚ a city in Asia Minor‚ where a friend of his‚ Hermias (d
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